Birthday

Thank you, higher powers, for Amy Poehler.

Bend your knee. It's Rowling's birthday—what better time to cast a few song-spells.

Spotted: at Lakeview Grocery in New Orleans, Louisiana

The Globe Theatre troupe is taking the man from Stratford to all the nations of the Earth. In the next two years the cast will perform Hamlet in every. single. country. This should be interesting.

The prominent primatologist was groundbreaking in natural science research, and in forging her place in the male-dominated ivory tower of the 1960s.

We scout out the day's weirdest news so you don't have to.

Just when you start to think the world is cold and bleak, a story like this comes along and you want to start hugging strangers in the street.